The Decameron Il Decameron
DVD - 2012
"Pier Paolo Pasolini weaves together a handful of Giovanni Boccaccio's fourteenth-century moral tales in this picturesque free-for-all. The Decameron explores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier and, as the filmmaker saw it, less compromised time. Among the chief delights are a young man's exploits with a gang of grave robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and Pasolini's appearance as a pupil of the painter Giotto, at work on a massive fresco. One of the director's most popular films, The Decameron, transposed to Naples from Boccaccio's Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex"--Container.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Comedy films
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
Criterion Collection
c2012.
- Language
- Italian
English - Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- DVD special edition
- Item Description
- Based on "The decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Special features include: On "The Decameron" visual essay by Patrick Rumble ; the 2005 documentary The lost body of Alibech (45 min.). - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (16:9, 1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
- Production Credits
- Photography, Tonino Delli Colli ; editors, Nino Baragli, Tatiana Morigi ; music by Ennio Morricone.
- ISBN
- 9781604656480
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